Noyale Colin

The Politics of Collaboration (PSI - Overflow- Hamburg)A roundtable with Gigi Argyropoulou, Valeria Graziano, Stefanie Sachsenmaier.Against the backdrop of current European political developments, the notion of collaboration has arguably gained acute new relevance. On the one hand, for many years techniques of governance and management have been appropriating tools of cooperation for their own neoliberal agendas; arguably these processes are currently intensifying, witness for instance the recent discourse on co-creation within various policy domains. On the other hand, social movements and self-organized initiatives are also re-activating practices of collaboration and solidarity around concrete trans-local issues. Both of these trajectories might be seen as simultaneously informing the flows/overflows and fluxes, discourses and orientations that traverse the performing arts.

Projects, performances, collaborations

This publication examines cultural, philosophical and political issues tied to specific instances of collaborative practice in the performing arts. Scholars and artistic practitioners review historical developments of collaborative practice and reveal what it means to work together in creative contexts at the beginning of the twenty-first century.